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Team Missouri Workout Day: Quick Hits

July 25, 2024
By: Diego Solares
Central Region Media Director, Scouting

From Wednesday, July 24, through Sunday, July 28, Prep Baseball is hosting the next edition of its prestigious Future Games at LakePoint Sports Complex in Emerson, Ga., featuring the country's best uncommitted talent. And, for the first time ever, the Future Games is hosting not just its typical set of incoming juniors and freshmen, but also a 17U division of uncommitted Class of 2025 players who will participate in the inaugural Senior Future Games.

On the first day of the 2024 Future Games, all players representing grad classes 2025, 2026, and 2028 participated in a pro-style workout in front of a fleet of Division I coaches alongside fellow prospects representing nearly every state in the nation.

Yesterday, our staff rolled out several of the day’s stat standouts in leaderboard format within our traditional ‘Stat Story’, which you can find HERE. 

We’ve gone into greater detail within this piece from Wednesday’s workout and broken down more of the day’s standouts in written form. Continue reading below to learn more about a handful of players that turned heads in Team Missouri’s workout. 

QUICK HITS

+ Arguably the most impressive workout for Team Missouri belonged to RHP/OF Brody Crane (Neosho, 2026). Crane showed high end bat speed with effortless power to pair, wearing out the left-center gap while leaving the yard a handful of times. He produced five batted balls at over 100 mph, peaking at 103.7 mph, and averaged 96.9 mph throughout his round. Crane’s ability to elevate the baseball is certainly noteworthy - he averaged 355 feet per batted ball, while his furthest traveled 406 feet, per TrackMan. The 6-foot, 205-pounder was also up to 92 mph from the outfield, with all of his throws registering above 90 mph. 


+ A true two-way standout, RHP/INF Tyler Putnam (Battle, 2026) really stood out from a position player perspective at Wednesday’s workout. Putnam repeatedly got off intentful hacks from the right side, showing easy pull-side juice with bat speed to match. The 6-foot-5, 190-pound Putnam drove his furthest ball 365 feet, averaging 268 feet per batted ball, and his loudest ball came off his barrel at 97.4 mph. Putnam ran a 7.14 60-yard dash at his size, with a 19.4 mph peak run speed, and was 87 mph across the infield on his firmest throw. 


+ INF Brendan Pyle (Fort Zumwalt East, 2026) took one of the more professional and polished rounds of Team Missouri’s workout. A strong, compact 5-foot-10, 180-pound athlete, Pyle was all over the barrel in both rounds, back spinning baseballs off his barrel gap-to-gap. He averaged 87.2 mph per batted ball, peaking at 94.5 mph, and his furthest ball traveled 353 feet into the left-center gap. Pyle’s long been known as a steady defender on the infield and his arm played accurate across the diamond, touching 86 mph at peak. 


+ C/1B Brooks Zumwalt (Summit Christian, 2026) offers easy power from an ultra-physical 6-foot-5, 190-pound frame. Zumwalt works direct and on top of the baseball from a flat left-handed stroke, finding several barrels with authority to the pull-side as he went on. His firmest ball screamed off his barrel at 102.7 mph, traveling 380 feet into the right-center gap. Zumwalt’s sheer physicality and tantalizing middle-of-the-order upside should draw eyes as the week rolls on. 


+ C Kendall Hagedorn (Smith-Cotton, 2026) owns one of the purest hit tools in the class and did nothing but backspin line drives back up the middle of the field in both of his rounds of BP. Hagedorn has fast, strong hands that control the barrel well, keeping it flat with length through the zone. He peaked at 95.6 mph, averaging 87.7 mph per batted ball, and his deepest ball traveled 338 feet, per TrackMan. Hagedorn’s catch-and-throw skills were on complete display in his workout, popping in the 1.89-to-1.97 range while topping at 77 mph. 


+ OF Micah Patterson (Lee’s Summit, 2026) showed a loose, fluid left-handed bat that repeatedly elevated the baseball into the right-center gap throughout his two rounds of BP. The 5-foot-8, 160-pound left/left athlete ran a 6.88 60, his personal best at our events, and topped at 86 mph from the outfield. 


+ INF Brady Tanner (Francis Howell, 2026) is a scrappy, gamer-type to follow as the event rolls on. Tanner kicked off the workout day by running a 6.88 60, reaching 20.3 mph at peak run speed with a 1.70 10-yard split. Tanner sprayed line drives off his barrel often (73%), working mostly to the pull-side from a clean, direct left-handed swing. He took a clean round of infield defense as well, working with pace and tempo throughout while comfortably playing on the move. 


+ A big winner from the Missouri State Games, OF Devin Freeman (Ladue, 2026) showed well yet again in front of our staff at the Future Games workout. At 5-foot-11, 155-pounds, Freeman ran a 6.83 60, reaching 20.2 mph at peak with a 1.66 10-yard split. He consistently sprayed line drives in BP from an athletic right-handed swing that stayed level through the zone. His arm played free and easy from the outfield, topping at 87 mph on his firmest throw home. 


+ OF Colton Petersmith (Rolla, 2026) ran the fastest 60-yard dash on Team Missouri, bolting to a 6.70 time on our lasers, with a peak run speed of 21.1 mph. Petersmith worked almost exclusively to the pull-side in BP from a flat left-handed stroke, squaring his hardest ball up at 95 mph. 


+ INF Brennan McLaughlin (Platte County, 2026) was another name for Team Missouri that showed well in all areas of his workout. He showed easy pull-side power from a loose, athletic right-handed swing that produced easy juice into the left-center gap. McLaughlin’s furthest ball nearly left the yard, banging off the left field wall at 369 feet, and his firmest ball jumped off his barrel at 94.9 mph. He also ran a 6.92 60 and was 86 mph across the infield at peak. 


+ A strong, physical 6-foot-1, 210-pound athlete, INF Craig Ringe (Eureka, 2026) was another name for Team Missouri that looked the part in BP. Ringe was on the barrel often with strong hands and intent, back spinning baseballs deep into the left-center gap from a flat right-handed swing. 


+ MIF Seaton Thompson (Ladue, 2026) has polish, balance, and ease from both sides of the plate, spraying line drives gap-to-gap in BP. At 6-foot-1, 170-pounds, Thompson’s fluid on the infield with soft hands and clean, controlled footwork. 

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